1. In His defeat at the hands of our sin and death we are granted victory over sin and death. The location of that victory is the cross. So, we do well to honor it, cherish it, indeed, boast in it.
  2. In meditating on these sacred texts, pastors will then be equipped for doctrinal preaching that edifies and exhorts God’s holy people in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.
  3. A skillful preacher will scour the text for such gospel gateways, even gateways as narrow as three letters.
  4. All sinners hunger for the assurance that Christ did not die in vain but for them.
  5. All proper sermons will bring auditors spatially from the spaces and things posited in their imagination to a living encounter with Christ at the altar.

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